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21 From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
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22 To: James Vasile <james@hackervisions.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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25 Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:02:08 -0800
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30 Subject: Re: [notmuch] Initial tagging
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47 On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:25:16 -0500, James Vasile <james@hackervisions.org> wrote:
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48 > I'm curious as to what people are doing in this regard.
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50 I'm currently using a script that does tagging not entirely unlike
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51 yours, (though my script isn't clever to retry a call to
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52 notmuch---believe it or not I'm just calling it manually still, not from
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55 > The tagging script uses the inbox tag to identify new mail, tags it
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56 > according to criteria, then removes the inbox tag from anything it found
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57 > a match for. Uncategorized mail keeps the inbox tag so I can inspect it
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58 > later and make rules for it (or tag it manually).
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60 One distinction is that I have all of my "notmuch tag" commands operate
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61 globally rather than just on new messages. One of the things that really
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62 annoyed be about sup was that the support for automatic tagging worked
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63 as a hook on messages as they were processed. So I couldn't use any of
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64 the tags for searches prior to the time that I had added a particular
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65 tag rule. I definitely didn't want to replicate that bug.
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67 I also don't remove the inbox tag from matched mail, since I have a
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68 "notmuch-folders" configuration that takes advantage of the matched tags
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69 in concert with the inbox tag.
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71 I've included my current auto-tagging script (notmuch-poll) below, as
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72 well as the snippet of my .emacs that sets my notmuch-folders variable.
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74 > Also, prepending "tag:inbox and" to search criteria restricts the
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75 > tagging to a small subset of the db, which makes the tagging script run
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76 > fairly quickly. My unexpurgated tagging script has almost 100 rules for
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77 > tagging, and I expect it to grow over time.
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79 To do my "global" searches quickly, I do a similar subsetting, but it's
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80 much simpler. If I'm adding the "notmuch" tag I do "and not
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81 tag:notmuch". We've even had the proposal of making "notmuch tag" do
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84 Meanwhile, I'm planning on eventually moving entirely away from any tags
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85 that are driven entirely by searches like this. Instead, I'd like to
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86 just have good support for "saved searches" where we have some syntax to
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87 perform string expansion on configured search terms. So where I'm
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90 notmuch search tag:notmuch
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94 notmuch search query:notmuch
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96 with a configuration associating "notmuch" to "to:notmuchmail.org" and
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97 the above would expand to:
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99 notmuch search '(' to:notmuchmail.org ')'
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101 We've been talking about these saved searches for a while, but we
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102 haven't implemented them yet, (nor decided firmly on the syntax we
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103 want). I just noticed today that sup recently added a similar
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104 saved-search feature with the following syntax:
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106 notmuch search {notmuch}
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108 I think I might like something like that with more custom syntax, (since
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109 the existing "prefix:" syntax has a fairly standard meaning that doesn't
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110 fit well with this new feature.
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112 With saved-search support in notmuch, I could get rid of my notmuch-poll
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113 script almost entirely, (I'd still want something to automatically
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114 remove the -inbox tag from some messages, but that's about it).
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118 ##### notmuch-poll #####
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119 echo "Importing new mail"
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122 echo "Running global tag additions to tag new mail"
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124 # Tag bug-mail first, (since we use the bugs tag below)
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125 notmuch tag +bugs from:bugzilla-daemon and not tag:bugs
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127 # Note mail sent specifically to me (excluding bug mail)
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128 notmuch tag +to-me to:cworth@cworth.org and not tag:to-me and not tag:bugs
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129 notmuch tag +to-me to:carl@theworths.org and not tag:to-me and not tag:bugs
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130 notmuch tag +to-me to:carl.d.worth@intel.com and not tag:to-me and not tag:bugs
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132 # And note all mail sent from me
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133 notmuch tag +sent from:cworth@cworth.org and not tag:sent
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134 notmuch tag +sent from:carl@theworths.org and not tag:sent
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135 notmuch tag +sent from:carl.d.worth@intel.com and not tag:sent
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137 # Intel mail deserves some distinction
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138 notmuch tag +intel to:carl.d.worth@intel.com and not tag:intel
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139 notmuch tag +intel from:intel.com and not tag:intel
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140 notmuch tag +intel to:intel-gfx and not tag:intel
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141 notmuch tag +intel to:linux-gfx and not tag:intel
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143 # Next, various free-software projects tagged by recipient
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144 notmuch tag +cairo to:cairographics.org and not tag:cairo
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145 notmuch tag +cairo to:pixman@lists.freedesktop.org and not tag:cairo
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146 notmuch tag +xorg-board to:foundation.x.org and not tag:xorg-board
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147 notmuch tag +xorg to:xorg and not tag:xorg
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148 notmuch tag +xorg to:xcb and not tag:xorg
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149 notmuch tag +announce to:announce@lists.debian.org and not tag:announce
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150 notmuch tag +debian to:lists.debian.org and not tag:debian
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151 notmuch tag +sup to:sup-devel@rubyforge.org and not tag:sup
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152 notmuch tag +lca to:lists.lca2010.org.nz and not tag:lca
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153 notmuch tag +notmuch to:notmuchmail.org and not tag:notmuch
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154 notmuch tag +nickle to:nickle.org and not tag:nickle
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155 notmuch tag +meego '( to:dev@moblin.org or to:dev@lists.moblin.org or to:meego-dev@meego.com )' and not tag:meego
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157 # Finally, a few subject-based tags
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158 notmuch tag +intel subject:xf86-video-intel and not tag:intel
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159 notmuch tag +sup subject:sup-talk and not tag:sup
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160 notmuch tag +pdx subject:pdx and not tag:pdx
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162 # And some sender-based tags
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163 notmuch tag +family from:theworths.org and not tag:family'
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165 # Keep most Debian bug traffic out of my inbox
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166 notmuch tag +debbugs '(' to:bugs.debian.org or from:bugs.debian.org ')' and not tag:debbugs
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167 notmuch tag -inbox tag:inbox and tag:debbugs and not '(' '"Package: cairo"' or '"Package: notmuch"' ')'
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171 ##### a snippet of .emacs #####
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172 (setq notmuch-folders '(("inbox" . "tag:inbox")
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173 ("tome" . "tag:inbox and (tag:to-me or tag:family)")
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174 ("tome-select" . "tag:inbox and (tag:to-me or tag:family) and not tag:notmuch and not tag:cairo")
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175 ("other" . "tag:inbox AND not (tag:to-me or tag:announce or tag:notmuch or tag:intel or tag:bugs or tag:cairo or tag:xorgboard or tag:xorg or tag:debian or tag:sup or tag:lca or tag:meego or tag:nickle or tag:pdx)")
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176 ("announce" . "tag:inbox AND tag:announce")
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177 ("notmuch" . "tag:inbox AND tag:notmuch")
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178 ("intel" . "tag:inbox AND tag:intel")
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179 ("bugs" . "tag:inbox AND tag:bugs")
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180 ("cairo" . "tag:inbox AND tag:cairo")
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181 ("xorgboard" . "tag:inbox AND tag:xorg-board")
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182 ("xorg" . "tag:inbox AND tag:xorg")
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183 ("debian" . "tag:inbox AND tag:debian")
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184 ("sup" . "tag:inbox AND tag:sup")
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185 ("lca" . "tag:inbox AND tag:lca")
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186 ("meego" . "tag:inbox AND tag:meego")
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187 ("nickle" . "tag:inbox AND tag:nickle")
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188 ("pdx" . "tag:inbox AND tag:pdx")
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189 ("todo" . "tag:todo and not tag:cairo and not tag:notmuch and not tag:intel")
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190 ("inteltodo" . "(tag:todo and tag:intel) or tag:todo-intel")
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191 ("notmuchtodo" . "(tag:todo and tag:notmuch) or tag:todo-notmuch")
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192 ("cairotodo" . "(tag:todo and tag:cairo) or tag:todo-cairo")
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